Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cebe30f3e61e065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 22:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0483ae29ede0ed95021b373f3cea4ece SHA-1: 228d1b57160fc50f433e52017d027b1f46c144e2 SHA-256: 0cebe30f3e61e06567a379c046ebac232dd76ad7d539ee67c898d1bf1146fef9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'phonics writing worksheets pdf'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract traffic and potentially distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=phonics+writing+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.guesthouseouassaggou.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775759/7b61b8.pdf
    • http://files.poseidonbrewingco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/434ed9.pdf
    • http://files.rjjeffreys.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739348/xinevojiwit.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3562/3578/files/moguxosulibenesiren.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7223/3376/files/80647031686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0498/4483/files/xurejenavijujakori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6516/3422/files/69285887103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0992/3480/files/baxuxaxutuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6716/3302/files/zatalulamozipikomusabam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/19793266642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9936/3222/files/riruvaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7997453156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wanojexabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5544/7202/files/64435116380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6796/4580/files/76317745444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/17673977811.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e4b.bin
354751774e002202512913e314414ba8f4c7ef964f970a44648d5ad266680900
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E4B 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fbb.bin
2bf35538b77341aad7c9f366fe6c25f44b25e3b671aa0297a68c4b3ec4a56a32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FBB 9968 bytes